10. Warm Audio Centavo & Warmdrive
John BohlingerThe vintage-style gear specialists dive into the legacy of two classic drive pedals.
9. Supro Amulet
John BohlingerPower attenuation plus all-tube tremolo and reverb make this a killer club amp at a nice price.
8. MXR Poly Blue Octave
John BohlingerPitch shifting, deep modulation, and monster fuzz make this single box a multi-headed tone mutator.
7. Gretsch G5420T Electromatic Hollowbody
John BohlingerTrestle-block bracing and new, refined FT-5E Filter'Tron pickups make a classic shape punchy, powerful, and more feedback resistant.
6. Magnatone Starlite
John BohlingerMaggie’s 5-watt mighty mite bursts with black-panel and tweed-Champ style sounds.
5. MXR Duke of Tone
John BohlingerAn impressive taste of what lurks in the King’s chambers for players on a budget.
4. Fender Kingfish Telecaster Deluxe
Premier GuitarThe Mississippi blues maestro’s signature instrument is a potent and dazzling evolution of an underrated Tele’.
2. PRS SE Silver Sky John Mayer
John BohlingerAn affordable version of John Mayer’s signature solidbody sacrifices little in the way of tone and quality, and sells for well under a grand.
1. Yamaha Revstar Standard RSS02T
John BohlingerA chambered body makes Yamaha's latest café racer-inspired electric a truly lightweight machine.
Spirit Nano
Sparkling clean tone that chimes like a glockenspiel. Smoky blues tones with the snarl of a junkyard dog. Lead sounds that wail as seductively as Siren's song. Expansive, enveloping arena rock tones. The malevolent grind of a chainsaw gnawing on heavy metal: Iconic sounds such as these have been giving voice to new modes of musical expression and shaping the sound of entire genres for more than 60 years now. The new Spirit Nano Heads from Hughes & Kettner capture the spirit of each era of legendary guitar sounds in three amps with distinctive personalities: Spirit of Rock, Spirit of Metal, Spirit of Vintage.
Amp Man Classic
Hughes & Kettner's all-analog Spirit Tone Generator is now available in a compact pedal format. AmpMan Classic´s two distinctive channels each embody an entire era of legendary guitar tones, served up by the built-in 50-watt power amp or the integrated Red Box AE+. With connoisseur tone-shaping capabilities, impressive power and a comprehensive set of professional features in a handsome little box, AmpMan is the go-to solution on stage, at home and in the studio.